Peter M, How about this WW2 German Army car (Opel?) converted to run on narrow gauge track. I'm sure it would be right at home on the farm. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7883/46476959785_f6d5009f80_c.jpg 1228121962_pic by tankienz , on Flickr There are several 1/35th kits of similar car available l...

No not the 1/35th scale project but I'm just scoping a 1/48th scale version. Armoured trains either carried their own track repair supplies and workers or they were available on call so yes a train could be temporally delayed but had the ability to repair minor track breaks. Against lightly armed gu...

I've resurrected this thread as I made amazing discovery at https://forum.axishistory.com/index.php which is an extract from the War Diary of the British Army unit the built the armoured train. The model train enthousiast in 1940 was the Battalion Adjutant of the 6th Somerset Light Infantry, one cap...

It had become clear, well to me at least, that your b****y smelly engines that now won't go around you corners, need to replaced by modern, economical infernal combustion locomotives with nice petite wheelbases or even better mounted on a pair of bogies. Retire those boilers to heat the big house.

HaHa - smashing - I do remember you and your modelling. If I remember rightly there was quite a few of us back in the day that really championed whimsy. I also remember a couple of pitched battles when some folk started cutting up rough about scale fidelity and the like - well we saw them off prett...

Recently I have been dabbling in 1/48 plastic military vehicles for new Pacific Island aircraft layout (aka a big display diorama) with accompanying former Japanese Navy 2ft gauge tramway. So I got me interested in 1/48 as a non aircraft modelling scale and I have returned to a former subject I used...

Wonder if the steam train has gone to Driving Creek. When he was alive Barry alway wanted a steam loco. While climbing the big hill was not an option the short flat firewood siding was considered suitable for steam.

I have been looking for a ground cover suitable to replicate crushed coral used on WW2 Pacific military airstrips which looked almost white in colour. Chinchilla Dust looked like a great possibility until I read it is actually ground volcanic pumice. NOT something I'm want to use around model railwa...